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You got "The And The" right. And thisclose on that last word.

Yup. TV show about a guy who keeps getting the next day's paper. It routinely has some kind of disaster on the front page that he's meant to prevent.

This was one of my favorites. "Sun-Times! Get your Sun-Times here! Hey, Mister! Latest edition!" "That's what you think, kid."

You got it. A song featuring vocals from The Fresh Prince AND Dion! Totally geeky.

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It's just a silly rundown of numbers, 100-1, from various movies. I'm sorry: I thought I was in Just Plain Silly. That's where this belongs...

The X-Files ?

This is funny.

This one might be real easy or real tough... I wake up in the morning, first sound that I hear is that clock radio ringing in my ear I make it to the bathroom to brush my teeth to that big city beat. I jump into the shower, bring my box along 'Cause I know all the words to all the songs DJ stops the music to announce the time Time has come today! Grab my coat and grab my hat Make my train in seconds flat And all the time I'm listening to my radio Down the block, to the corner you can hear it all night long on the roof, and down on broadway...

Is this "Blue" by Leann Rimes?

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Johniam, Did I miss a birthday thread for you? Happy birthday!

Quick FYI: Suda, Try not to link back to a movie that's been very recently linked. Naked Gun 33 1/3 was just linked a few posts ago. Nonetheless, there were two other Naked Gun movies and your link worked for them as well, so all's good. The Octagon Lee Van Cleef Escape From New York

Kit, As you may or may not suspect, your second point was why I started this thread. So let me ask this: insofar as one may say "For my part, I forgive LCM and VPW for what they did to the church," what's the practical application of it? Does it mean we no longer mention what they did? And I'm not talking about the restoration of fellowship: I think it would be unwise if, having unilaterally forgiven LCM for his actions, I were to attend a church where he was the leader. Let's take LCM out of this and talk instead about Pastor Dave, a real person who was the pastor at a large South Florida church. I've written about him before. Here's a guy who ran a church but had an affair with a parishioner and divorced his wife. Then he went out and started another church. Ok, so I forgive him for what he did to the church. But I'm not going to his new church. And if I talk to anyone from his new church or his old church and that subject comes up, I think it's fair to say I don't like what he did and I'm not going to support him in it. So have I truly forgiven if I haven't forgotten?

Sigh.

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Roy, Are you suggesting that you have the right to forgive someone for what that person does to me? Do i even get a vote? When you say "forgiveness is always appropriate," I think it's a great sentiment. But if you think it through, that sentiment is extremely presumptuous and arrogant. Who am I to forgive someone for the wrong they've done to someone else? Am I off base?

Yep.

"I met him fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face and, the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil." Note: There are no missing words here. The "..."s represent pauses.

cman, What does that verse tell you? How does it relate to my questions? I'm not asking to argue. I just mean I want to know what you think in relation to the question I posed. I'm familiar with the verse, but it doesn't answer the questions. It only restates what I said: the Christ had the authority to forgive sin.

This comes up quite a bit and I was hoping people could offer a Biblical perspective on it. When is forgiveness appropriate? In my reading, I've concluded that it is appropriate in several different ways and times, but I'm not sure I've nailed a solid answer. I don't have verses handy, so forgive me for speaking off the top of my head, but here's what I see: You can forgive someone for wronging you. You do not have to wait until they apologize, but their apology or lack thereof does have practical implications. It is difficult, thought not impossible, for genuine fellowship to be restored between two people when a recognition of wrongs done has not taken place, and it is difficult for such fellowship to be restored when, following that recognition and apology, forgiveness has not taken place. But you CAN forgive without the apology (that is, you no longer hold the wrongdoing in your heart as an active barrier to that fellowship). You can be delegated to forgive someone for wronging someone else. When Jesus Christ forgave sins, people murmured that only God has the right to forgive sins. His response was that God gave him the authority, so Christ was empowered to do it. I have no right to firgive someone for hurting you. But do we Christians have the right to forgive someone for hurting God? That is, can we forgive sin? I don't know. I've got an idea, but it's not studied. Your thoughts?

Oh, all right: History of the World Part I.

Clever.

Clever.